Babies Room 2/28/2011

It has been way too long since my last post and I apologize for that.  I wanted to give you all and idea of where we are at with the new babies room.  The pregnancy has been going way too fast and I can hardly believe that we are half way.  Jess has been having a rough go at it the entire time.  She has been incredibly sick and been extremely tired.  Jess can't help with the painting due to be pregnant so I set off on the daunting task of getting the babies room ready.  Come to think of it Jess was pregnant with Mya when we painted the rest of the house....Coincidence?  I don't think so.  For those of you who know me well...I HATE PAINTING.  This is for a very good cause though.  We decided to not find out what sex the baby was so we had to stick with unisex colors.  Let me rephrase that...Jess decided not to find out what the sex of the baby is (I did).  Surprisingly it isn't as difficult as you would think keeping it from her.  I have just decided not to tell anyone at all.  I have been pressured believe me but I havn't let it spill.  I figure if I tell one person then it will lead to telling 2 people and then I won't be able to stop.

The few pictures that you see here are just the start to the room.  This room was our guest room and was the only room in the house that I hadn't painted yet.  We moved a couch bed into my bonus room and that is now serving as our guest room.  Any guests that we have won't mind at all.  As you can see from the pictures we selected an orange color for the top and we are doing a series of stripes on the bottom and separating these colors with some chair rail.  We are also going to hang some curtains.

I even got brave enough to let Mya help me paint.  She was a great helper with this.  She is going to make a great big sister.  Jess and I keep asking her if she wants a baby brother or a baby sister.  She floats back and forth but she has been leaning more toward a baby sister.  Only time will tell what the baby is....:).  The stripes were as much of a task as you would expect them to be.  It took me 2 weeks to do all the painting because once you painted you had to let it dry before you could paint other colors.  So after 2 long weeks the paint was done and the chair rail was up.  I couldn't have done it without my buddy Brandon who also lives next door to me.  Without his help I don't think I would have been able to do it.  Jess made a video of the completed room so enjoy.....

We are very happy with the completed room and can't wait to meet the new little one.  By the way here are the names that we picked out.  If it is a boy we are going to name him Kolby Matthew Dimmick and if it is a girl we are going to name here Addyson Dru Dimmick.  Can't Wait.

Here are a few pics and videos of Mya on her first putt putt golfing outing.  She absolutely loved it and I hope you will too.  Until next time......Love you all!!

Hockey Classic in Savannah GA

Every year for the past few years we have taken a family trip up to Savannah, GA to visit with our friends and to attend the Savannah Hockey Classic.  Mya is finally at an age where she can understand what is acctually going on.  We decided to go up on Saturday morning and we spent the afternoon with Josh, Erin, and Lily Culverhouse in Pooler GA.  Lily is a little younger than Mya and they get along so well.

Lily has a tent that Mya loved.  They both had so much fun in the tent. 

On Saturday night we went to the Hockey game.  The Florida gators played the Florida State seminols.  Here are a few pictures from the game.

The smile on Mya's face during the whole game was such an amazing feeling.  I love the fact that she loves sports.  She kept yelling for the players and ended up telling me that she wanted to go skating.  I will have to take her to the ice skating rink.  God knows her mom won't be able to take her..haha.  That is another story for another time though.  There were alot of goals scored during the game, most came from the gators.  Mya clapped and cheered for every one of them.  When the Gators scored the entire crowd would do the gator chomp.  Mya loved doing that as well.  I guess I am going to have to come to terms with the fact that Mya quite possibly could become a Florida Gator...UGH!!  here is a video of Mya doing the Chomp...I have to admit it was pretty cute.



The entire trip was so much fun.  We topped off a great weekend with great friends at Crackerbarrel on Sunday morning for Breakfast.  It has become a Sunday morning tradition with the Culverhouses.

I want to share another video with you all before I go.  Mya loves telling everyone what she had and didn't have for Breakfast. 



I hope you all enjoyed our family visit to Savannah.  Stay Tuned!.......

Christmas Pictures

Here are a few pictures from our recent family christmas vacation.

Hope you enjoyed....More to come.  Stay Tuned....

Mya's Christmas Present

Ok so we are a little early but Jessica and I couldn't wait.  We decided to let Christmas come a little early this year to the Dimmick household.  We have known what we wanted to get our little munchkin for quite some time now but wanted to give it to her on Christmas. 

If you don't know this Mya has a small obsession with playgrounds and swingsets...as do all children I guess.  She absolutely loves going to the park and climbing up and down the stairs and going down the slide.  She also loves the swings.  She is becoming more and more of a dare devil as she gets a little older.  She always wants us to swing her.  She always yells "higher daddy", "higher daddy".  She loves the thrill I guess.

The swingset now looks great in our backyard but it was definatley a small slice of heaven putting this little nightmare together.  My buddy and I decided that we would run up to Toys R Us and pick this thing up in his SUV.  After jamming this thing into the back and using rope to tie down the hatch we said a little prayer that this wouldn't fall out on the interstate on the way home.  We got back to my house and had to take it piece by piece into the backyard because it was just way too heavy for the 2 of us to carry.  I know I know it is hard to believe that he and I couldn't carry this thing in the back...I mean we have been working out.  Once we got it back there we got right to work.  3 Hours later and a few curse words that I would rather not repeat we had a swingset.   I have posted the video of Mya seeing it for the first time and also of her playing with it.  Unfortunately the weather has not allowed her to use it as much as we would have liked but she will enjoy this for a few years.  She absolutely loves it.  It was the perfect gift.

And here is another video just for fun!  Mya and her fantastic animal impressions!

More to come soon.  Stay Tuned......

Twinkle Twinkle little star

This is the first time that I have uploaded a video so I am giving it a shot.  My sister has urged me to start uploading videos so here goes nothing.  Mya is singing Twinkle Twinkle little star for you all!  Enjoy

Here are some more videos that I found.  This is alot easier to upload a video than I thought so there are many more to come.  Stay tuned...

Jacksonville Fair

 

 

I remember as a kid how much fun the county fair was.  The rides...the junk food...the games.  It was a great feeling to go and just have a great time.  People watching was always fun too.  I think I got that from my mom and my grandmother.  They can people watch with the best of them.

Jess and I took Mya to the Jacksonville fair a week ago.  We weren't really sure what to expect because obviously she is only 2 so we were getting ourselves into uncharted territory.  We thought that she might be too young to really enjoy herself.

We arrived at the fair and funny enough Mya didn't want to walk.  She HAD to ride in her stroller.  She kept screaming "stroller"..."stroller" so we let her come along for the ride.  The look on her face when we paid our way through the gates was priceless.  She could see the rides from the entrance.  We decided to go ahead and find the ticket booth so we could try the ride thing before it got too dark to get some pictures of her.  We could either buy individual tickets or we could buy an unlimited ride bracelet.  We opted for the individual tickets because we didn't think that she would last very long on the rides.  Wow were we wrong.  We have a little thrill seeker on our hands.  She absolutely loved the rides.  We first took her on the airplane that went around in circles.  She laughed the entire time with her hands straight up in the air.  Obviously these were kiddy rides but you can tell from the pictures that I had just as much fun on the rides as she did...haha.  We went from the airplanes to the bumble bees and she loved this even more.  She kept making buzzing sounds the entire time we were on the ride.  I couldn't believe that this bumble bee ride would hold me but it did...how embarrassing would that have been...probably just as embarrassing as a grown man in a bumble bee ride.huh.  We rode a couple more things then Mya laid her eyes on a pretty scary looking ride.  The Roller Coaster.  She HAD to ride this thing.  Just imagine how devastated she was when we found out she was a couple of inches too short...Oh well.  There is always next year.

At that point we were out of tickets and decided to go and check out the animals.  They have anything from pigs and cows to a dog show that does tricks.  She loved every minute of it.  I think the animals were glad to see her go!  I think her favorite were the little chicks.  She was trying her hardest to get in the cages with them. 

After the animals we decide to go get some food.  Gotta love fair food...YUM.  I think for dinner we had a bucket of nachos with orange stuff that didn't even closely resemble cheese and a slice of pizza that was a little closer to being called a piece of rubber.  Mya had a corn dog for the first time and seemed to like it but Mya really eats just about anything.  She is my little bottomless pit.

All in all it was a great day.  Wish my sis could have brought the triplets down because I think they would have enjoyed it as well.  Maybe next year :).  I hope you enjoyed our fair trip...Stay tuned for more....

Halloween Festival

We found out that the Church across the street from our neighborhood was having a Halloween Festival on the Friday night before Halloween.  They were advertising many kinds of activities for a family to participate in.  There was face painting, inflatable bounce houses, and Trunk or Treating.  The trunk or treating is a pretty neat event.  The cars were lined up and down each row of parking spaces and the kids in their costumes were lined up walking from car to car and getting candy from the people who belonged to the church.  Each car was decorated in a different way and there was a theme associated with each.  Mya's face lit up when she saw all the costumes and all the cars.  Some of the cars were decorated in her favorite themes.  Candy Land, Mr. Potato Head, and an Icecream theme to name a few.  She loved going to the back of each car and saying "Tick or Teet".  It was the cutest thing.  We had her decked out in her Bumble Bee costume and she loved running around with it on making a buzzing noise.

After the huge line of kids lining up to get candy we decided to go to the section with the Bounce houses.  Mya isn't quite big enough to hold her own in the house of kids throwing themselves against the walls so we decided to just go to the face painting booth instead.  She had just as much fun! 

The Halloween festival was a huge success.  Mya got tons of candy...most likely for mommy and daddy!!

Stay Tuned.....